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Jun 26, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
India’s finance minister has derided comments by former US president Barack Obama that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing Obama of being hypocritical. During Modi’s state visit to the United States last week, Obama told CNN that the issue of the “protection of the Muslim minority in a majority-Hindu India” would be worth raising in Modi’s meeting with US President Joe Biden.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF |Imtiaz Ali
One woman died while at least a dozen were injured in a stampede during the disbursement of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) funds at the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) Ground on Monday, officials said. Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed confirmed the death to Dawn.com. According to Jackson Police Station House Officer (SHO) Baber Hameed, around 12 to 13 wounded women were moved to Civil Hospital and were said to be out of danger now.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appeared for the first time since a deal was struck on Saturday to end what the authorities had called an armed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group aimed at ousting him. In a video released on Monday morning by the Russian Defence Ministry, Shoigu was shown flying in a plane with a colleague and hearing reports at a command post run by Russia’s Zapad (West) military grouping.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
The US Coast Guard said on Sunday it had launched an investigation into the cause of the underwater implosion that destroyed the small submersible Titan, with the loss of all five people aboard, including two Pakistanis, during a dive to the Titanic wreck.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
KARACHI: US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome visited Karachi to underscore the strong bilateral ties between his country and Pakistan. Ambassador Blome engaged with government officials, the American Business Council, the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Pakistan Council on Foreign Relations and the Pakistan Naval Academy, said a communiqué here on Sunday.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
ISLAMABAD: After former prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Dubai on Saturday afternoon reportedly for “important” political engagements, PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday departed for the United Arab Emirates. As he left for the UAE on Saturday, Mr Sharif’s son Hussain Nawaz told reporters his father would be going to Dubai, and may travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the holy pilgrimage.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
• Finance Bill imposing Rs215bn more taxes approved• Asif urges NA not to pass bill seeking perks for senators• Lawmakers to leave for Haj today by special flightISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Sunday approved the next fiscal year’s budget, which was revised a day earlier to meet International Monetary Fund conditions in a last-ditch attempt by the government to secure much-needed bailout funds.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF |Syed Irfan Raza
• Key amendment empowers ECP to give poll date without consulting president• JI lawmaker rejects bill as ‘person-specific’ISLAMABAD: After its approval from the upper house of parliament, the National Assembly on Sunday approved the Elections (Amendment) Act 2023, which empowers the Election Commission of Pakistan to unilaterally fix the date for elections and also limits the lawmakers’ disqualification period to five years with retrospective effect.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF
SWABI: The family of former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser has reached the United Kingdom, sources in Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf told Dawn here on Sunday. They said the decision to travel to the UK was taken due to prevailing precarious situation in the country and what they said targeting of PTI leaders and workers since the May 9 mayhem following the arrest of PTI chairman Imran Khan.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Blaming IMF |Maleeha Lodhi
AMID much fanfare, the government last week announced an “economic revival plan” focused on what it calls “untapped potential in key sectors of the economy” to attract foreign direct investment from “friendly countries”. A new body has been created, the Special Investment Facilitation Council, to undertake this task. Any initiative to address the dire economic situation is to be welcomed. But serious measures have to be rooted in reality and not reflect wishful thinking.
